Elliott Carter, Selected Vocal Works
Below you will find examples from the major vocal works of Elliott Carter discussed in the print essays of “Elliott Carter: Settings.” With one exception, pieces cover the middle and later periods of Carter’s career, spanning from the 70s to the 00s. The pieces demonstrate Carter’s affinity for poetry from the main lineage of American modernism: Pound, Crane, Zukofsky, Bishop, Ashbery. They are accompanied by brief passages of commentary drawn from the essays in the print edition of “Elliott Carter: Settings.”